Asiya and here aide Fehmeeda Sofi are under trial in an old case and were produced before the court. The court sent Asiya to judicial custody.

Asiya was lodged in Amphalla jail Jammu soon after her PSA was quashed by the High Court in May this year.

Jammu and Kashmir High Court also in June this year had asked the state government to consider shifting of pro-freedom leaders Masarat Alam and Asiya Andrabi from Kot Balwal jail Jammu to a Kashmir Jail, however, government didn’t act.

Pertinently a day before today’s court directions, State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) while acting on the petition filed by

Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik has directed the state government to transfer incarcerated Asiya Andrabi to any jail in Kashmir. (CNS)